note that there is no russia today in chinese, because the chinese told them they do not want russia today in china. russia today is a channel through which these notions are distributed around the world. the legitimacy of the ukrainian state is totally undermined. mr. putin said twice in his q&a that he sees the new government of ukraine as illegitimate and by the implication that yanukovych is still the legitimate resident. and again, the people who are fighting for separating eastern and southern ukraine from the rest of ukraine are locals, when it is very clear by the way they bear themselves, by the kind of night scopes and infrared scopes and silencers that they carry on their rifles, these are special forces. made a distinction in crimea there were special denied now in re eastern ukraine it s tphis not special forces. green men or e local activists that could buy scopes in d night every local hardware store. another tactic that russia is local is that the hroe separatists are putting women nd children in front of them and ukrainian commentator tactic that with the used in gaz